Isaiah 26–27

CHAPTER 26

Yahweh Will Establish Peace

^1aIn that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:

“We have a ^bstrong city;

He sets up walls and ramparts for ^csalvation.

²“Open the ^agates, that the ^brighteous nation may enter,

The one that keeps faithfulness.

³“The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect ^apeace

Because he trusts in You.

⁴“^aTrust in Yahweh forever,

For in Yah—Yahweh Himself—we have an everlasting ^bRock.

⁵“For He has laid low those who settle on high, the ^1aexalted city;

^bHe brings it low, He brings it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

⁶“^aThe foot will trample it,

The feet of the ^bafflicted, the steps of the poor.”

⁷The ^away of the righteous is upright;

O Upright One, ^bmake the path of the righteous level.

⁸Indeed, while following the way of ^aYour judgments, O Yahweh,

We have hoped for You eagerly;

^bYour name—the ^cmemory of You—is the desire of our souls.

^9aAt night ¹my soul longs for You,

Indeed, ²my spirit within me ^bseeks You earnestly;

For when the earth ³experiences Your judgments,

The inhabitants of the world ^clearn righteousness.

¹⁰Though the wicked is shown favor,

He does not ^alearn righteousness;

He ^bdeals unjustly in the land of uprightness,

And does not perceive the majesty of Yahweh.

¹¹O Yahweh, Your hand is raised up high, yet they ^ado not behold it.

¹They behold ^bYour zeal for the people and are put to shame;

Indeed, ^2cfire will devour Your adversaries.

¹²Yahweh, You will establish ^apeace for us,

Since You have also performed for us all our works.

¹³O Yahweh our God, ^aother masters besides You have ruled us;

But through You alone we ^bbring Your name to remembrance.

^14aThe dead will not live; the ¹departed spirits will not rise;

Therefore You have ^bvisited and destroyed them,

And You have made all remembrance of them perish.

^15aYou have increased the nation, O Yahweh;

You have increased the nation, You are glorified;

You have ^bextended all the borders of the land.

¹⁶O Yahweh, they visited You ^ain distress;

They ¹could only whisper a prayer;

Your chastening was upon them.

^17aAs the ¹woman with child draws near to the time to give birth,

She writhes and cries out in her pangs of labor,

Thus were we before You, O Yahweh.

¹⁸We were ¹with child, we writhed in labor;

We ^agave birth, as it seems, only to wind.

We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,

And the ^binhabitants of the world ²were not born.

¹⁹Your ^adead will live;

¹Their corpses will rise.

You who dwell in the dust, ^bawake and shout for joy,

For your dew is as the dew of the ²dawn,

And the earth will ³give birth to the ⁴departed spirits.

²⁰Come, my people, ^aenter into your rooms

And close your doors behind you;

Hide for a little ^1bwhile

Until ^cindignation passes by.

²¹For behold, Yahweh is about to ^acome out from His place

To ^bvisit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth;

And the earth will ^creveal her bloodshed

And will no longer cover those of hers who were killed.

CHAPTER 27

Yahweh Will Deliver Israel

¹In that day ^aYahweh will ¹punish ^2bLeviathan the fleeing serpent,

With His fierce and great and ³mighty sword,

Even ⁴Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And ^cHe will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

²In that day,

“A ^1avineyard of delight, sing of it!

³“I, Yahweh, am its keeper;

^aI water it every moment.

Lest anyone ¹damage it,

I ^bkeep it night and day.

⁴“I have no wrath.

Who would ever give Me ^abriars and thorns in the battle?

I would step on them, ^bI would burn them ¹completely.

⁵“Or let him ^1arely on My strong defense,

Let him make peace with Me,

Let him ^bmake peace with Me.”

⁶¹In the days to come Jacob ^awill take root,

Israel will ^bblossom and bud,

And they will fill the ²whole world with ^cproduce.

⁷Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has ^aHe struck them?

Or like the slaughter of those of His who were killed, ¹have they been killed?

⁸You contended with them ¹by driving them away, by ^amaking them forlorn.

With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the ^beast wind.

⁹Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be ^aatoned for;

And this will be the whole fruit of the ^bturning away of his sin:

When he makes all the ^caltar stones like pulverized chalk stones,

When ¹Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

¹⁰For the fortified city is ^aisolated,

A ¹haunt ²forlorn and forsaken like the desert;

^bThere the calf will graze,

And there it will lie down and ³feed on its twigs.

¹¹When its ^alimbs are dry, they are broken off;

Women come and light a fire with them,

For they are not a people of ^bdiscernment,

Therefore ^ctheir Maker ^dwill not have compassion on them.

And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹²And it will be in that day, that Yahweh ^awill start His threshing from the flowing stream of the ^1bRiver to the brook of Egypt, and you will be ^cgathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

¹³And it will be in that day, that a great ^atrumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of ^bAssyria and who were banished in the land of Egypt will come and ^cworship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.